Google announces creation of Indian Language Internet Alliance

Google announces creation of Indian Language Internet Alliance

Posted on -Tuesday, November 4, 2014    By VARINDIA Correspondent
  Google announces creation of Indian Language Internet Alliance 
Google has announced the creation of the Indian Language Internet Alliance (ILIA), a group committed to promoting the growth of Indic-language content online. Through its efforts, the ILIA hopes to enable 300 million Indian language speakers to become highly engaged Internet users by 2017.
Google announces creation of Indian Language Internet Alliance

The ILIA is composed of ABP News, Amar Ujala Publications Ltd, C-DAC, DB Digital, Firstouch, HinKhoj, Jagran Prakashan Limited, LinguaNext Technologies Pvt. Ltd, NDTV, Network 18, Oneindia.com, Patrika Group, Process Nine Technologies Pvt Ltd, Prost Innovation Pvt Ltd, Reverie Language Technologies Private Limited, Times Internet Limited, Ver Se Innovation/NewsHunt, Webdunia.com in addition to Google. The Alliance will work together to accelerate building Indic language content for the hundreds of millions of Indians who will be coming online for the very first time, mostly via smartphones and mobile devices.


In addition Google is committed to building the Indian language web by making products for Indic language speakers. Google also showcased demos of Voice Search in Hindi and has also launched a website called www.hindiweb.com, which will be a good place for Hindi speaking Internet users to discover the best Hindi content across websites, apps, videos and blogs.


Google is very committed to bringing new Internet users online in India,” said Rajan Anandan, Vice President and Managing Director of Google India. “The Web holds great potential to empower many Indians economically and socially, and thanks to the smartphone revolution, many millions of Indians will be coming online for the first time in the next few years. Through the Indian Language Internet Alliance, we want to help content creators to act now and build relevant content for these new Indian language mobile users.”


Last year, Indian language Internet users have started to come online rapidly on their smartphones. They are using Indian language keyboards to access and create content in their language. The ILIA hopes to enable more creators to build much more content in Indian languages, so that more Indian users will be able to use the Web and find it relevant to their everyday lives.

 

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